This comprehensive encyclopedia of small arms is both an authoritative reference work and stunning visual directory. The chronological survey of arms development looks at the origins of firearms, beginning with gunpowder and developing through handguns, matchlocks, wheelocks and flintlocks. The 20th century era and beyond is dominated by the manufacture of arms for major worldwide conflicts, and the development of submachine guns in the period between the World Wars. Modern arms are explained in...
Releasedatum: 2012-01-15 45,00 kr
A completely updated, revised edition of the classic, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge on global affairs, popular culture, economic trends, scientific principles, and modern arts. Here’s your chance to brush up on all those subjects you slept through in school, reacquaint yourself with all the facts you once knew (then promptly forgot), catch up on major developments in the world today, and become the Renaissance man or woman you always knew you could be! How do yo...
Releasedatum: 1997-04-22 109,00 kr
Now a Netflix series! New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by: NPR, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Rachel Ray Every Day, San Francisco Chronicle, Vice Munchies, Elle.com, Glamour, Eater, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, Tampa Bay Times, Tasting Table, Modern Farmer, Publishers Weekly, and more. A visionary new master cla...
Releasedatum: 2021-12-30 89,00 kr
Today, there is hardly any workpiece whose form parameters cannot be measured by means of coordinate measuring machines. The universal use of these machines allows a wide range of application of this technology which, however, increases inevitably the complexity of its handling. The numerous options of the machine-specific operating software on the one hand and the various theoretical considerations regarding a target-oriented treatment of measuring jobs on the other hand result in the fact that...
Releasedatum: 2014-10-24 139,00 kr
Impossible ideas, invisible patterns, hidden connections—visualized Deepen your understanding of the world with these mind-blowing infographics from the bestselling author of The Visual Miscellaneum
Releasedatum: 2014-11-25 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 259,00 kr
Dricker fiskar vatten? Har stora människor större celler? Varför nyser man inte när man sover? Virvlar vatten åt olika håll på norra och södra halvklotet? Finns det miljöförstöring i rymden? Varför finns det så många väderkvarnar i Nederländerna? Tänker man sämre på engelska? Varför korvar sig telefonsladden? Dessa och 155 andra tankeväckande frågor ställs och besvaras i Dricker fiskar vatten? Här har Björn Fjæstad, chefredaktör för Forskning & Framsteg, flaggskep...
Releasedatum: 2007-05-08 79,00 kr
Concise encyclopaedia of mathematics (152 pages) - from basics (age 9) up to GCE Advanced Mathematics (age 18), is comprised mainly of material extracted from our comprehensive revision Maths course material. Over and above material extracted from our existing courses our author designed more specifically for inclusion in the Encyclopaedia. This book is ideal as a ready reference for examination revision.
Releasedatum: 2012-03-17 59,00 kr
In En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell - award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive - uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture. Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France stages to illegal Alley Cat races, and cult heroes to cycling slang, Tell provides a personal insight into this complex world that only a cycling junkie can. From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan to...
Releasedatum: 2018-09-06 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 35,00 kr
For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, and customs--from Kleenex to steak sauce, Barbie Dolls to honeymoons.
Releasedatum: 2013-02-26 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 115,00 kr
Wikipedia ist das Gedächtnis der Menschheit. In Millionen Artikeln steht fast alles, was wir wissen. Noch nie hat jemand versucht, dieses wuchernde Ungetüm durchzulesen. Peter Grünlich hat einen spektakulären Selbstversuch unternommen und die Weiten der Online-Enzyklopädie durchquert. Dabei hat er erstaunliche Entdeckungen gemacht: Menschen, die unsere Welt entscheidend vorangebracht haben, von denen man aber noch nie gehört hat, Geheimprojekte der CIA, die wichtigsten Werke der Kulturgesc...
Releasedatum: 2020-11-08 125,00 kr
La littérature française en 200 notions clés ! La poésie épique, la querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, l'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alambert, le Nouveau Roman...la collection pour les Nuls propose un tour d'horizon de" la littérature française à travers 200 notions clés illustrées !
Releasedatum: 2018-09-13 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 79,00 kr
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is a 29-volume reference work. It was developed during the process of transitioning from being a British to an American publication. Many of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of that time. This edition of the encyclopedia is now in the public domain, and has been used extensively by Wikipedia.
Releasedatum: 1911-01-01 29,00 kr
'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans The sixth book in the bestselling series brings bizarre, astonishing, conversation-starting facts from the clever clogs at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI . Did you know that: Iceland imports ice cubes. A group of ladybirds is called a loveliness. It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandi. Eight billion particles of fog can fit into a teaspoon. People who read books live longer than people who don't. Prince Philip ...
Releasedatum: 2017-10-03 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 79,00 kr
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a well-known general encyclopedia that has been published since the 18th century. There were 15 print editions; the current edition is electronic. Encyclopaedia Britannica was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication.
Releasedatum: 2016-04-13 9,00 kr
Tänä päivänä kuulee liikaa tarinoita väsyneistä vanhemmista, jotka eivät vain enää jaksaneet. Tämä kirja kertoo yhden äidin tarinan. Haluan kertoa tarinani siksi, että olen esimerkki miten aivan tavallinen äiti voi pahimmillaan luisua kuilun reunalle harmittomaksi ajatellun uniongelman vuoksi. Minä selviydyin, m***a rimaa hipoen. Tunnistan pahoinvoivien vanhempien tuskan. Toivon, että tarinastani voisi olla apua jollekin väsyneelle vanhemmalle. Ajattelen, että yksikin uupunut ...
Releasedatum: 2016-01-19 59,00 kr
La Belgique en 250 entrées, soit autant de déclinaisons très sentimentales d'un pays souverainement sans pareil. Ce livre est un vagabondage sentimental à travers la Belgique d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, ainsi qu'une vibrante célébration de ses personnalités les plus connues et de ses figures les plus méconnues. Roland de Lassus, Pieter Bruegel, Pierre Paul Rubens, Léopold II, Félicien Rops, Émile Verhaeren, Georges Simenon, Hergé, René Magritte, Jacques Brel, Eddy Merckx, Jean-Claude V...
Releasedatum: 2015-10-08 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 169,00 kr
There are many, many more things that nobody knows...! Why do we have five fingers? Do animals have a sense of humour? Did the universe have a beginning? What causes déjà vu? Why do cats purr? How fast did dinosaurs move? In Even More Things That Nobody Knows , William Hartston once again explores the limits of human knowledge, revealing 501 further mysteries in subjects as diverse as cosmology, mathematics, animal behaviour, medical science, music, art, language and literature. From the trivi...
Releasedatum: 2015-11-05 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 49,00 kr
Denise Bombardier nous permet de mieux connaître les Québécois, ces héritiers du vieux continent, qui honorent à leur manière, drue, directe et joviale, les aventuriers français qui ont débarqué en Nouvelle-France et les générations qui par la suite se sont échinées pour faire de cette terre francophone un défi permanent à l'uniformisation du continent nord-américain. Descendants des aventuriers français qui ont débarqué en Nouvelle-France au XVIe siècle, les Québécois ont ...
Releasedatum: 2014-11-20 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 169,00 kr
'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans 1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin is packed with even more fascinating facts. Whilst you're bending over to grab your socks following the succes of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, don't forget pick up your jaw as the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Did you know that: Pigs suffer from anorexia. It is impossible to whistle in a spacesu...
Releasedatum: 2013-11-07 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 79,00 kr
HERE ARE MANY, MANY THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS . . . Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped? Where did our alphabet come from? Can robots become self-aware? Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight? What goes on inside a black hole? Are cell phones bad for us? Why can't we remember anything from our earliest years? Full of the mysteries of life, the universe and everything, The Things that Nobody Knows is a fascinating and unputdownable exploration of the limits of human k...
Releasedatum: 2011-10-01 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 49,00 kr
Cueillez dès aujourd'huy les roses de la poésie ! " Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine ", " Heureux qui comme Ulysse ", " Mignonne allons voir si la rose "... Vous souvenez-vous de ces quelques vers appris sur le banc de l'école ? Et n'avez-vous pas envie de connaître la suite ? Jean-Joseph Julaud est là pour vous rafraîchir la mémoire et vous souffler à l'oreille les plus beaux vers de la poésie française ! Prenez la machine à remonter le temps pour découvrir les somptueux Ronsard...
Releasedatum: 2010-12-17 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 169,00 kr
While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and change about. When he comes to subjective psychology, he leaves all this behind he has to face a world...
Releasedatum: 2011-03-23 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 95,00 kr
Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you enjoy a hot lunch while watching kinbaku? Would you consider wearing a French tickler, a merkin, a strap-on, or pasties . . . or would you rather just go commando at the Mine Shaft? From Deep Throat to Debbie Does Dallas, from the mile-high club to the Emperor's Club, John Baxter explains it all to you ...
Releasedatum: 2009-10-06 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 109,00 kr
Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts! mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind! Ingredients include: 5 tiny nations that get no respect • 4 civilizations nobody remembers • 5 classics written under the influence • 4 things your b...
Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 115,00 kr